IT Auditing jobs?

[Ns1]

Originally posted by: Dougmeister
As much as I hate being a consultant, and as much as I think I'm tired of programming, I *really* like my 40 hours a week.

Does IT Auditor definitely mean a lot of overtime? How much are we talking here?

If you work big4 50-70 hours/week.

 

[Platypus]

There are good IT auditors/consultants out there but they're so few and far between that in my experience, 90% of them are clueless fuckwads who couldn't hack it in a high-stress enterprise environment and read from best practice scripts that don't even make sense for the given situations.

Then again, I've worked in places that are completely clueless about IT and NEED people to tell them how not to do things... it works both ways.

My best friend is an auditor/consultant (one of the good ones) and tells me the scariest fucking stories you've ever heard.

As far as a career though, you've got a classic glass ceiling on a consultant gig. You either get forced out or pushed into management.. so keep that in mind. I would personally recommend against it, but that's me.

 

[zerogear]

Originally posted by: Platypus
There are good IT auditors/consultants out there but they're so few and far between that in my experience, 90% of them are clueless fuckwads who couldn't hack it in a high-stress enterprise environment and read from best practice scripts that don't even make sense for the given situations.

This has been my experience.

 

[ultimatebob]

Also, don't forget that everyone that you're auditing will learn to hate you after you find dozens of security holes that they'll have to fix when you leave 🙂

Seriously, I've seen IT staff get fired after an audit because they were doing such a lousy job!

 

[Gibson486]

Originally posted by: Platypus
There are good IT auditors/consultants out there but they're so few and far between that in my experience, 90% of them are clueless fuckwads who couldn't hack it in a high-stress enterprise environment and read from best practice scripts that don't even make sense for the given situations.

Then again, I've worked in places that are completely clueless about IT and NEED people to tell them how not to do things... it works both ways.

My best friend is an auditor/consultant (one of the good ones) and tells me the scariest fucking stories you've ever heard.

As far as a career though, you've got a classic glass ceiling on a consultant gig. You either get forced out or pushed into management.. so keep that in mind. I would personally recommend against it, but that's me.

As a person who works for a consulting firm (but in a different industry), I agree. Some people that they call consultants is scary.

About the clueless comment...ofcourse. Lots of these firms get out of school grads b/c they are cheap labor. The ones that make it to management...good, you have your future leaders for the industry. Just hope they can lead well and are not pricks. Most of the others (like me...I want out and out now) cant cut it and leave.

As for horror stories...man...I only been at my firm for a year and half and I have so many of them. They range from internal stories, to stories about other firms, to stories about how dimwitted some clients are. What is scary is that I actually work for one of the firms that do the job right....I can only imagine the crap that they tell the new grads at other firms.

Hours? this can be a normal 8-5 job....my firm tries to have people not work past 40 hrs a week....but sometimes working 55hrs a week 2 months straight is not out of the question. When you get into management...forget it...it becomes nightmare. It's pretty much atleast 50 hrs a week....and do not get me started about what happens when you firm is located soley on the east coat and you have a client on the west coast.

Platypus is also right, you are pushed into management or weeded out. It makes sense, however, because you are a consultant and this is the business side of things, so there is no room for high technical expertise with no desire to become a manager that just talks to clients all day.